The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-22
ABOUT WOMEN.

manage farms in Iowa.
EIGHTY young women at Wellesle
100 at 0bsrlin, and more than 200
other colleges, are said 10 be prepa
ing 10 go as missionaries.
Miss PRocroR, OF Oregon, who
only seventeen, has killed seven bea
this winter, and sold their pelts for III
benefit OF the missionaries In Airic.
sKvES American girls are studyin
at Cambridge University, England, {
Newnbam College. Four are RradV
ates OF Vassar, Smith and Wellesley
TIE National College for Deaf Mute
at Washington, is TO be opened /
women. DR.. Ga laudet, the president
gives his own residence for their at
commodation.
Miss SUSAN L. HALL hiss been ap
pointed by Judge Knapp clerk OF tn,
court at Great Falls, N. Ii. She is tn
first woman in New Hampshire to hol,
such position She is Dung, bu
comes Of family Of lawys.r, aud j
we'll qualified.
BosroN has q gymnasium exclusive
ly for women. 1t has elk bowling al
leys, a tennis court, gymnasium
ball, runniny track of twenty laps t
the mile, to. aud cold baths, etc. Il
was probe ted by Miss Mary Allen. II
is vel pa;ronissd.
MANY OF the argum ents against
woman suffrage, when boiled down,
amount to this: III women are given
equal rights with men, some women
will abuse them, as some men now do
The,tf ire, women should not have
eq lAl rights with men,"
MISS K,TR FIELD was given recep.
ton at Salt Lake City, the other day
by the Womsn's Relief Corps of the
g. A. r and was presented with a
gold badge set with diamonds, in re.
cognit'on Of her services in securing
a1ti-Mormcn legislation.
You ask my reasons for believing in
women's suffrage. II seems q first
ptincip Q, an Hxiom, that every house.
holder or taxpayer should have q
voice In electing those who spend the
money we pay, including, as this does,
interests the most vital to a human
being Florence Nightingale.
SUSAN COOLIDGE Miss Woolsey) has
built u handsome house in Newport
from the profits OF her stories. She is
notably fond Of children and parrots.
She has an ancient bird who parades
up and down her lawn, communinQ
with himself, and visitors cay that he
quotes yolubly from his mistr, SIS
writings.
JULIAN RALPn, after discussing at
considerable leBgth the different as-
pecls Of the entrance OF women int1
business, sums up the effect thus:
woman is losing nothing except
what leaves her better of, and man is
losing only the doll wives and servant
wives Of old, and getting companion
wives in their places" q
Mss MARGARRrrA BowhKs, who has
just died in Columbia. Tenn, was rich,
highly educated and a great traveller.
She co lected, at vast expense, the most
valuable private museum now In the
South. She has bequeAthed this and
her library to the Columbia Institute,
where for nine years she has taught
gratuitously, engaging at the same
time IN extensive charities.
AN immense kiln in the center of
the tobacco warehouses at the LONDON
docks goes by the name OF the
Q leen's Tobaccopipe." 1t is kept
burning day and night; and mere han.
dice seized for non.psyment OF duty,
or because IL is considered under the
law damaged or unstable, is burned
ia the kiln, the owners having no
The ashes are cold for fer
tilizing purpo es.
WOMAN today is doinga q aud work
in the church, in the tenn perarcs
cause, in the hospital, the society for
the p eventlon of cruelty to animals,
a d in every humane and Christ like
work, in all OF which she has a voice
and vote; and if she is fortunate
enough TO own share OF stock in any
incorpora ed company, chartered by
or under the laws OF this common.
wealth, she votes on such stock lust
rs a man does, and yet it noes dot I'M
sex her. But when we want to allow
her to vote to prote ct herself, her fam.
Ily and her real estate, men cry cut in
holy horror, aud say, "You will make
unieminine, and destroy the
home. - Senator A. d Harlan, Pa.
MISS JULIA ELIZABETH FoRNERET has
been installed as deaConess in the
Church by Bishop Potter,
II New York. She is the first dea.
,oness admitted to that church for
nearly 400 years, and the frst one ever
,reited in America. A desconess 10
lot nun. She remains in the world, |
'ut all the while is engaged 10 church |
work. The Rutland, w., Herald says;
III this is all, there are from thre to |
en- deaconesses in every church when
'ver an entertainment ia to be given,
lIly they are not called by that nome.
sometimes they have been spoken of
IS the Drudgery Committee. But by
ny other name they are Just as sweet,
nd 1t Is q good sign that the church
means to be just when II cpniers honor
pom ouch deserving ones"